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Letters Patent No. 101,381, dated March 29, 1870.

IMPRO'VD CIG-AR-BOX.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and rnakng part of the same.

To all whom it may concern Be it known thatl, MATTHEW RICHARDSON, of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and improved Box for containing Cigars, o1 other articles and substances; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing forming part of this specification.

The increasing price of ceda-r has rendered it for some time very desirable to find some cheaper substitute for` it in'the manufacture of boxes for containing cigars, furs, and other articles. One of the best substitutes thus far found has been afabric composed of paper or pasteboard thinly veneered on both sides with this wood.

This fabric for some purposes, particularly those in which air-tight boxes are required, is even superior to cedar itself alone, but it does not serve well for cigar-boxes, as it is not suficiently pervious to air and moisture to permit the seasoning of the cigars.

Witha View to obtain in a great degree the adi vantage of the fabric above specified so far as cheapness is considered, and to retain in a considerable degree the advantage of cedar in providing for the seasoning of cigars, and to obtain a box in other 'respeots superior to one made all of cedar,

This invention consists in a box having its ends made of cedar, and its other parts of the fabric hereinbefore described.

Figure l in the drawing is a horizontal section of the box.

Figure 2 is a transverse vertical section ofthe same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both figures.

A is the bottom;

B, the back ;v

C, the front, and

D, the lidof the box made of a fabric composed of paper or pasteboard, veneered with cedar.

E E are the ends of the box, made of cedar.

The box may be pnt together and secured by tacks, and have its corners finished by papering in the same way as an ordinary cigar-box, but some of the corners may be formed without joints by simply cutting partly through the veneered fabric above mentioned, and bending it. p

The box represented is put together and finished like an ordinary cigar-box, except that the back corner of the bottom is formed by bending, as shown at c in iig. 2.

I am aware that boxes 'have been made entirely of paperlveneered with wood, and that such material is the subject of a patent granted to Fitzgibbons, but such being entirely impervious to air, and requiring to be glued instead of nailed, are both unsuitable and too expensive for use as cigar-boxes. These, therefore, I do not claim.

Vhat I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A box having its ends constructed of pervons Wood, and its other parts of veneer-ed paper, substantially as set forth, as a new article of manufacture.

XVitnesses: `M. RICHARDSON.

FRED. HAYNES, HENRY` PALMER. 

